The attorney for Luke Walton on Tuesday emphatically denied accusations of sexual assault on the part of the one-time Warriors assistant coach and newly hired head coach of the Sacramento Kings.
“The accuser is an opportunist, not a victim and her claim is not credible,” Mark Baute told TMZ. “We intend to prove this in a courtroom.”
TMZ broke the news on Monday afternoon, reporting that a sports journalist had filed a civil lawsuit against Walton for assault when Walton was a Warriors assistant. The suit alleges Walton forced himself on the woman at the Casa Del Mar hotel in Santa Monica, where she had come to give him a book she had written.